Old Time Radio Show Log Autographed by 154 including Orson Welles, W. C. Fields, Boris Karloff, Jack Benny

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Original Request Performance radio program register hand-signed by 154 classic Stars! This is a Who's Who of Hollywood circa 1945: Orson Welles, Jack Benny, Abbot + Costello. Authenticity guaranteed plus 3rd party COA.

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CBS Radio Show Request Performace Autographed by 154 Performers

Original Request Performance radio program register, 31 loose pages, dating from October 7, 1945 to April 21, 1946, signed by 154 actors, actresses and others; the performers for the evening would sign in shortly after appearing on the Request Performance program. First page is the title page which reads, “Request performance, Broadcast from Hollywood, 1945 - Sponsored by Campbell’s Soup, produced by the Masquers and the Ward Wheelock Company.” On the following 30 pages, for each episode, each guest has signed in, with most adding the date, and many adding short comments to the right of their signature, with some of the more interesting ones included below. Signers are listed below by episode date and title:

Apparently at the conclusion of the program’s run, Wheelock had the register sent to him, and the register is accompanied by a Ward Wheelock Advertising envelope, 13 x 10, stamped “special delivery,” and postmarked “Philadelphia, May 17, 1946.” Some light circular toning to some of the pages, some running of ink to a couple signatures on first page, and some light creases, otherwise fine condition.

As head of a Philadelphia-based advertising company, Wheelock had a number of top clients, including Campbell’s Soup. These two entities teamed up in the mid-1940s to produce Request Performance, a radio program featuring Hollywood stars of the era performing suggested concepts. The program soon climbed to the tops of the popularity charts, and many of the actual requests were quite original. The third installment featured a request to hear Orson Welles’ rendition of A Rocket Trip To the Moon, another program granted a listener’s request to hear Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes.

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